Rabbi Yakov Bronsteyn - Parsha Classes

We discuss the conversation that took place between Rachel and Yaakov regarding having children.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the different opinions of Yaakov Avinu’s prophecy of the ladder. Where was he? Where was it situated? We also discuss the different aspects of the Divine Presence at the Western Wall. This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 11/25/09

We discuss the difference between Avraham who kept the Mitzvos based upon his own devices and the Jewish People who accepted the Torah at Mt. Sinai. We present the perspective of Rabbi Avraham Grozinsky in his Toras Avraham.

**Throwback Episode** We deal with the question of the Drashos HaRan. How was Yaakov Avinu justified in ignoring the honor of his father even if he was following the directives of his mother? This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 11/19/19

In this episode we grapple to understand the Torah Avraham’s perspective of the change that took place after eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Is it wrong to shirk every yoke and do whatever one wants? What is the definition of Freedom.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 11/16/11.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/30/11

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/6/10

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 10/14/09.

This was the Annual Yahrtziet Shiur for my mother Svetlana Bas Yaakov Z”L in our Succah in 5782, 2021 on Hoshana Rabbah. We discuss the reason for the huge candelabras situated in the courtyard of the Temple during the Simchas Beis HaShoava and why the Ramban left out their detail in his work, the Yad Hachazakah.

This class was given by my brother-in-law, Ran I Shlomo Berkowitz for Yeshivas Ben HaZmanim in the Phoenix Community Kollel. It’s an in depth discussion about my practices enacted by the Men of the Great Assembly.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at our Succah on my mother’s Yahrzeit in 5778: Svetlana bas Yaakov

This is an in-depth shiur given for Yeshivas Bein HaZmanim at the Phoenix Community Kollel on Chol U’Moed Succos. 17th Tishrei 5782. We discuss the necessity of various pesukim to disqualify stolen materials used for Mitzvos which are already disqualified by מצוה הבא בעבירה.

I relate the content of a Yizkor Drasha that I gave in Ohr HaTorah in Phoenix in 5782, 2022 on Yom Kippur. We discuss how the World To Come has no chronological timeline and of what consequence that is for the deceased.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the meaning of Succos and what one should have in mind when they eat their meal in the Succah. This class was at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 9/30/09

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the situations in which one may be able to eat on Yom Kippur. We also detail the the amount of food and drink one would be able to consume during those situations. This class was given in the Phoenix Community Kollel on 9/23/09

**Throwback Episode ** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 9/21/11.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at Ahavas Torah of Scottsdale on 9/26/08

**Throwback Episode** This drasha was given in Ahavas Torah of Scottsdale on the first night of Selichos in 2013

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 9/17/08.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss the comments of the Avi Ezri that the efficacy of any medicine depend on attitude. One’s belief and peaceful calm may contribute to the amelioration of one’s health condition. This class was given on 9/14/11

We discuss the fact that the foundational principle upon which the world was built is kindness - chesed. Therefore, the possibility to make wrong choices is included in that rubric.

**Throwback Episode** This class was given at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 9/10/08

We discuss how the dichotomous emotional structure in a mature person. On the one hand one should be humble but at the same time it’s prudent to be proud.

**Throwback Episode** We discuss a case where two unrelated women from two separate towns accuse the same man of leaving them both without a Get. In response to these allegations denies any knowledge of either matter. This class was given at the Phoenix at the Phoenix Community Kollel on 8/11/10